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Since the October War Israel has been increasingly isolated in the world community. Yasir Arafat's triumphant speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations symbolized the deterioration of Israel's international position. Once again, the continued viability of the State of Israel is in question. In addition, the politics of oil, superpower involvement in the Middle East, resurgent Palestinian nationalism have all become frequent topics in newspapers and journals. A quick glance at the schedule of speakers at Harvard demonstrates the upsurge of academic interest in the Middle East. Yet, in spite of this, the level of interest...
...recently as November 1974. Yasir Arafat "endorsed" binationalism by saying "Palestine is only a small drop in the great Arab ocean. Our nation is the Arab nation extending from the Atlantic Sea to the Red Sea and beyond." The Arab people have shown their "desires to live in peace" with minorities in the Middle East by systematically depriving minorities of their rights throughout the Arab world. One need only mention the Kurds and Jews in Syria, Greek and Coptic Christians in Egypt, Berbers in Algeria, and Assyrians in Iraq to recall the magnitude of this campaign of Arab subjugation...
...abolition of the special military government which oversaw Arab affairs was a first step in that direction. The Israelis will have to take other steps, such as permitting some of the exiled Palestinians to return in installments. It would be unrealistic to expect Israel to welcome the Palestinian leaders Yasir Arafat and George Habash with open arms...
...Nasser Iay dying in a Cairo suburb, the cease-fire between Jordan and Arab guerrillas he had worked out at a Sunday summit conference of Arab leaders appeared near collapse. The more radical guerrilla factions broadcast criticism of the agreement, which had been worked out with moderate guerrilla Yasir Arafat. Without Nasser's prestige behind it, the peace is even more tenuous...